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The CPC’s Dictatorial Patriotism
A nation is composed of its people. People are the mainstay of a nation; they are also the source of national sovereignty and the owners of national interests. In… More
Can It Be That the Chinese People Deserve Only “Party-Led Democracy”?
"For the emergence of a free China, placing hope in 'new policies' of those in power is far worse than placing hope in the continuous expansion of the 'new… More
The Many Aspects of CPC Dictatorship
Although the CPC regime of the post-Mao era is still a dictatorship, it is no longer fanatical, but rather, a rational dictatorship that has become increasingly adept at calculating… More
Changing the Regime by Changing Society
We have had over twenty years of reform, but due to the Chinese Communist Party’s selfish arrogation of political power and the scattering of civic forces, in the short… More
The Negative Effects of the Rise of Dictatorship on World Democratization
When the CPC boss Hu Jintao made his first official visit to the United States [in April 2006], he followed the old low-key pragmatic approach the CPC regime had… More
PEN Appeal: Jean Leonard Rugambage
June 29, 2010 President Paul Kagame Office of the President BP 15 Urugwiro Village Kigali, Rwanda Fax: +250 572431 Police Commissioner Emmanuel Gasana Commissioner General Rwandan National Police Kigali, Rwanda Fax: +250 58 66 02 Prosecutor General Martin Ngoga National… More
Newspaper Editor Murdered
International PEN protests in the strongest possible terms the murder of Jean Leonard Rugambage, deputy editor of the banned newspaper Umuvugizi, who was shot dead outside his home on… More
Nothing is Stable
Lispector had, in common with Borges in his fiction, an ability to write as though no one had ever written before, as though the work’s orginality and freshness arrived… More
June 18, 2010: Remembering José Saramago
PEN is saddened by the loss of José Saramago, Portuguese novelist, playwright, and journalist, who died on June 18, 2010, at the age of 87. In 1998, he received… More
Greed’s Prisoner
even the ashes don’t belong to you, his body / in the prison of the Communist Party / so that the spirit-cell you built / without a door without… More
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